Read aloud first to get a feel for the overall tone and subject.
How to get the most meaning out of a poem: Pay attention to punctuation, remembering that a semi-colon requires a longer pause than a comma, and period is a full stop. Do not stop at the end of a line unless the punctuation or natural phrasing tells you to. Used to control meter.Įnjambed line: when the punctuation and natural phrasing forces movement in reading to go right on through to the next lineĮnd-stopped line: when the punctuation and natural phrasing forces a stop or pause atįollow natural phrasing, not line breaks, to pace the reading. Volta: the turning point, usually found between the octave and the sestet or at the coupletĬaesura: a deliberate pause in the middle of a line. Quatrain: set of 4 lines (There are 3 quatrains plus a couplet in an English sonnet)Ĭouplet: pair of rhymed lines, the last two lines in an English sonnet Sestet: last 6 lines (in an Italian sonnet) Octave: first 8 lines( in an Italian sonnet) (There is variation in the Italian sestet’s rhyme scheme) In Petrarchan (Italian) sonnets the rhyme scheme is a-b-b-a-a-b-b-a-c-d-c-c-d-c In Elizabethan (English) sonnets, the rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b-c-d-c-d-e-f-e-f-g-g
Rhyme scheme: the pattern of rhyme at the ends of the lines Iambic foot: one unstressed syllable + one stressed syllable Iambic pentameter: a line comprised of five iambic feet (PENTAmeter)
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